Ken Long  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  719 views  |  Read Full

 

American higher education is shifting from a focus on what teachers teach to what learners learn. The role of teachers is shifting from one of disseminator of knowledge to facilitator of learning. One of the ways that we can encourage the shift to occur is in the construction of learning centered syllabi.

Ken Long  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  856 views  |  Read Full

 

Accepting responsibility for their own learning can be a significant challenge to students. This is especially a problem if they have grown up in a school system that had an emphasis on objective testing against nation-wide standards.

Alex Case  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  2034 views  |  Read Full

 

Anyone who has ever taught using the technique of presenting the language, practising it in a controlled way and then giving students the chance to use it in a free communication production activity will know that it is far from a perfect method, and some of the legitimate attacks on its theory and practice are...

Adam Waxler  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  3762 views  |  Read Full

 

I am always amazed at the range of ability levels of my students within any given class. Within one 8th grade class I may have students who struggle to read and write while at the same time have students (within the same class) who are reading and writing on an upper high school level.

Viorica Demici  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  2092 views  |  Read Full

 

In order to make a language class successful one has to try to match its content with various methods aiming to make studying exciting and engaging. The usage of modern technological equipment ought to be taken in consideration when preparing teaching materials for a language course.

Adam Waxler  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  1519 views  |  Read Full

 

Anchor activities are student centered activities that are designed to extend and review already learned skills. These activities are ongoing assignments that are self-directed. In other words, the students work on these activities independently throughout a given unit.

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Your students are deathly afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid in front of their peers. Failure hurts...especially at school...especially in front of their friends. Were you ever humiliated in front of your classmates? I was. It still hurts!

Kip Yellowjacket  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  1022 views  |  Read Full

 

This is a short follow-up to a previous article on the viability of virtual worlds as language learning/teaching platforms, in specific Second Life. Focus here is the use of SL (Second Life) as a component of blended learning. http://eslarticle.com/pub/articles/english-as-a-second-language-esl/virtual-world-scepticism-792.htm

Douglas Corin  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  1210 views  |  Read Full

 

The children you teach are already learning, but would you like to help them even more, especially those who seem to be struggling? It's no secret that some children learn much faster than others and that this soon leads to imbalanced levels among classmates.

Pramela Krish  |  Teaching Methodology  |  0 comments  |  3195 views  |  Read Full

 

In recent years, language teaching has focused on the learning process rather than the teaching of the language. The emphasis is not only on linguistic competence of the language learners but also on the development of their communicative ability. In order to develop the learners' communicative ability, the teacher needs to create a scenario to teach the target language in a vibrant, active and interesting manner.